Goodbye Drive Times Beta. Hello Autonomous Scheduling!

Does it feel like only three weeks ago that we announced the Drive-Time-Based Scheduling Beta?

We don’t have the budget nor stamina for hundreds of millions in “autonomous” projects that build hype for ten years without actually shipping anything. So we had to settle on a three-week timeline — and something usable to go with it.

Simplified, Smart Scheduling

What if:

All your scheduling could be managed from a single calendar.

Your calendar needed only seven show windows (one for each day) and not two dozen.

Showings were automatically scheduled in location-aware clusters.

Drive times between showings comfortably addressed traffic conditions while minimizing your down time.

All your other calendar and listing specific settings — such as grouped showings and daily showtime limits — continued functioning as normal.

Ok. That’s probably what you wanted when we rolled out ShowMojo in the first place.

By that reckoning, it took us seven years and hundreds of thousands of dollars to get our autonomous project delivered. We’ll happily accept that outcome.

The New Autonomous Scheduling Beta

Autonomous Scheduling is available as an open beta. To enable it — and learn more — go to the Schedule Settings page and scroll down to the Autonomous Scheduling Beta section.

Even though it’s open to everyone, please be mindful this is a real beta. We don’t mean to overpromise with our five what-if bullets above. This is still a work in progress. We’ll be collecting feedback, monitoring progress and making improvements.

What Does This Mean for the Drive Times Beta?

Nothing — except that we don’t really consider Drive-Time-Based Scheduling to be in beta any more.

And, if you’ve already configured the Drive-Time-Based Scheduling settings, everything will continue to operate as it has for the last three weeks.

“We could not have doubled our managed property count in a two year period (500+ units) without the capacity ShowMojo created for our business. We’ve been able to leverage our existing workforce to do more with this technology, and to provide a better customer experience at the same time. Customers love the flexibility to see homes on their schedule, and we love having it continue working for the business even after we’ve left the office. Automated data tracking allows for fast references when making decisions on price adjustments, or responding to owner inquiries. Showing feedback also helps gauge the market for each individual home. Easy to use customization features allow us to satisfy varying levels of owner comfort utilizing self-showing technology. Can’t say enough about the time and corresponding dollars saved with ShowMojo.”

“I think ShowMojo is fantastic. In the past, whenever I saw the ShowMojo booth at a trade show I would make an effort to walk over and tell all the prospects in the booth they need your product. I also tell every PM I run into that ShowMojo is the only way to go. And I’ll be honest . . . I’ve taken calls from the “other guys” but I’ve never been sold. ShowMojo is the key component if you want to run a property management company and not let it run you.”